{"id":2103,"date":"2017-01-28T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2017-01-28T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T20:12:41","slug":"whats-worst-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2017\/01\/28\/whats-worst-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the worst that could happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnewsradioonline.com\/politics-news\/how-trumps-pick-for-education-secretary-may-reignite-the-edu.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.1.sqspcdn.com\/static\/f\/360296\/27415881\/1484651834893\/getty_011717_betsydevoseducation.jpeg?token=2Iq1%2FOPAR%2BY%2BnvRMZci0BT%2BxTQ8%3D\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos\" width=\"630\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Betsy DeVos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betsy_DeVos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Betsy DeVos<\/a> is going to ruin your local schools and cause the complete ruin of the American education system, then <em>maybe the federal government has too much influence<\/em>. Parents and local school boards should be able to work together to provide a great educational experience for each and every child. If that means a charter school or school of choice, then local school districts should be able to offer that. My son benefits greatly from school choice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions, the biggest opponents of Betsy DeVos, have too much influence in the educational system. They care only about preserving their jobs and don&#8217;t have students best interests in mind when they negotiate contracts. I firmly believe that public employees should not be able to unionize.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where <a href=\"http:\/\/buff.ly\/2jBAj9S\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> gets its statistics about charter\/choice schools. In my county the charter\/choice\/magnet schools are always among the best performing schools. 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Parents and local school boards should be able to work together to provide a great educational experience for each and every child. If that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2017\/01\/28\/whats-worst-happen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s the worst that could happen?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[539],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-betsy-devos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}